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- proper noun An
annual celebration in ancientSparta , during whichnaked young men displayed theirathletic andmartial skills throughdancing .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Similarly, their Gymnopaedia is but another form of dance.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894
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Gymnopaedia, the Spartan youth danced in honour of Apollo.
Plato and Platonism Walter Pater 1866
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The Ephors forbade the chorus of men, who were celebrating in the theatre the festival of the Gymnopaedia, to be interrupted.
A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest William Smith 1853
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They were excluded from the festival of the Gymnopaedia, in honour of Athene; and the magistrates ordered them during winter to walk naked round the market-place, and while doing so to sing a song written against themselves, which said that they were rightly served for their disobedience to the laws; and also they were deprived of the respect and observance paid by the young to the elders.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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Eng. tr.) (3) The {khoroi}, e.g. of the Gymnopaedia.
Polity Athenians and Lacedaemonians 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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